Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
...collusion can be established." said Labor's Aneurin Bevan, "the whole fabric of the government's case falls to the ground." The main theme of Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd's defense was to show that while "it is true that we were well aware of the possibility of trouble," there was no secret agreement between Prime Ministers Anthony Eden, Guy Mollet and David Ben-Gurion over the timing of their respective attacks on Egypt, and that there was neither deceit nor fraud in Eden's declared objective of "separating the combatants" and "removing the risk...
...Lloyd's denial did not cover what the real accusation of collusion was about (TIME, Nov. 12). This was that Britain and France knew in advance that BenGurion was going to attack Egypt, though they expected the invasion to take place nearer U.S. Election Day, a few days later than it actually did (thus accounting for the initial slowness of the Anglo-French operation). France viewed with enthusiasm, and Britain with at least equanimity, an Israeli attack on Nasser, and both France and Britain conspired to keep the U.S. in the dark about their Israeli intelligence and their...
...anti-Communist neighbors in the Baghdad Pact-particularly Turkey and Iraq-met and agreed to fight "subversion" from Syria. The Turks announced "routine" army maneuvers near the Syrian border and flew their Acting Foreign Minister to London to discuss "the Syrian situation" with Britain's Foreign Minister Selwyn Lloyd. Did they intend to put Syria out of its misery...
...newest and biggest prize in art reached the finals. Nineteen national and international juries had selected 95 works from 19 countries to vie for the $10,000 grand prize, established this year by Manhattan's multimillion-dollar Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, whose new $3,000,000, Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum is now going up on Manhattan's upper Fifth Avenue...